I registered on these boards last May but never actually posted here after I registered. I was a GoneGold junkie tried and true. Rightly or wrongly, I never even checked in here prior to October 8th or so when Gone Gold folded.

I got to thinking today that these boards operated for months without the influx of refugees from Gone Gold. For those of you who have been around awhile, what has the change been like? One of the major worries us boat people had when we washed up on your shore was that we would treat the locals rudely and spoil something good you had going.

What was it like before? How has it changed? What's been good and what's been bad?

In this country, you gotta make the posts first. Then when you get the post count, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the...

I'm not sure what you get next actually. I already have a woman, what should I use my newly found power here to acquire?

Seriously, though, this place kinda feels like it's become very GG like and I have no idea whether the atmosphere was like this before the influx but I think we might have molded a little of these forums with our "forum preconceptions"

There was a rough spell while people were getting over the disappearance of GG, but it's back to how it was before. For one, I'm glad that the R & P people took their discussion elsewhere -- it simply doesn't fit, en masse, in this community.

I don't think it's changed much at all. It was wierd at first, but it seems that everyone had settled on the forum that they want and now it's back to normal.

In fact I'd say I like it more. I hated checking the GG forums and then come back here, we had a good little core here that had good discussion, and now everyone else gets to the see that group of people, who weren't necessarrilly noticed at GG.

On top of that it's good to know that we have defined leadership and things in place so that we can avoid things like the Mod-wars, and people freaking out because a few people want to change how the forum was run.

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"I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind amazing things will happen." - Conan O'Brien

I have to admit that I was a bit worried there for a while, but good discussion among managers and mods and the community at large kept the oars in the water. I'm happy with how things turned out.

As far as how things changed, we do have a bit more traffic than before, but I don't think our core has changed much. We had a solid community of people interested in gaming and I think we still have that.

That said, I'm happy that we are now covering PC - there were just too many great games that we were not covering because of our console-only focus. I'm happy to be covering great titles like WoW, EQII, Vampire, HL2, etc. as well as the smaller nitche titles that some folks won't necessarily pick up like CSI and Sherlock Holmes. As we move forward and integrate PC a bit better I think the focus will re-adjust and blend so its more even, but that'll take time. I love watching this site grow...

hey, I didn't know there was a second board...I'll have to check it out.

But for now, I like CG...its not as "hectic" as GG, and the discussion is more open. Heck, even bought the xbox I have been thinking about, does that make me a CGer now? Heck I haven't even bought a PC game in over two months!! (I don't have half-life 2 and no GG effect to buy it )

. But overall, lots of familiar nicks and chats. I just hope CG doesn't do that "politics and religion" forum...that was one part of GG that I didn't enjoy, and NEVER posted in it. The deals forum in GG was more active than here, but overall, I think CG is nice (the forum is up and no lag!).

Ive been here for a lil bit readin and only started postin recently. I dont mind it at all. There's a bit more of the "threads gettin off topic as we smash the stupidity of others" stuff every now and then, but not enough to really ruin the experience. Its more than offset by the increased volume of good threads... and Im not sure I would have been able to bullshit as much durin the ALCS and WS without the influx of GGers (I was a LONG time visiter to that site - actually since just before PC Gamer mentioned the site for the first time but really never once checked out the forums, just Rich's front page stuff).